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VMWare Tools in a Kali Guest

If you have installed Kali in the virtual environment as a Guest machine, you may want to install VM tools to enhance the performance of your VM machine.
To read the full document, check our VMWare Tools in a Kali Guest article.

If you have any issues with this procedure, please post them in this thread.

4. Even when trying to install from ./vmware-install.pl .. I'm stuck here:

"Searching for a valid kernel header path...
The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.7-trunk-686-pae kernel headers.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.7-trunk-686-pae kernel?
"

Thanks in advance!

I was getting this error at first until I followed the article that the OP linked. However, I started getting another error after the vmware installer tried to start the vmware service. I'm going to post the error here in just a sec after making another attempt at this.

Hi And greeting to all Members and Admins
im using kali-linux-1.0-amd64.iso on vmware-player
when i try apt-get install open-vm-tools" "apt-get install open-vm-tools" then i get this error "package 'open-vm-tools' has no installation candidate bashackage:command not found
can u help me fix this please
thank in advance !

when it asks you to type in a a valid path to the 3.7-trunk-686-pae kernel headers put "no" instead of yes and continue. That's how I installed on both my PC's using VMWare Workstation.

That didn't work for me either. Installation aborts.

Edit:

I re-installed a few times. What worked for me is setting the Network Adapter to NAT instead of Bridged and then installing like normal. After the last install I followed the guide posted above and everything went swimmingly. Hope this helps.

when you install make sure that you set up the mirror
also i tried the open-vm-tools worked like it should altough i did not get auto screen resizing also of not it changed the package set that it installed to "open-vm-toolbox"

after trying again with a fresh vmware install with the graphical install i was able to install the mirror i tried first time with text install i guess it didnt pull a ip cus i got a couldnt read mirror it does a check of it

i would go with the vmware tools install just copy and paste each line as there are in the page ref'ed in the first post

So I know this is not a final fix, I still get perl parsing issue and it states install aborted, but it all works even with the issues. I have mouse and monitor integration as well as folder sharing with the host system

If you have installed Kali in the virtual environment as a Guest machine, you may want to install VM tools to enhance the performance of your VM machine.
To read the full document, check our VMWare Tools in a Kali Guest article.

If you have any issues with this procedure, please post them in this thread.

The referenced article suggests "apt-get install open-vm-tools" as the easiest approach. But you will get more mileage if you do: "apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox"
open-vm-toolbox comes up as a suggested module, but it should be required IMHO.

Next, mount the Vmware tools ISO by clicking “Install VMware Tools” from the appropriate menu. Once the VMware Tools ISO has been attached to the virtual machine, we mount the drive and copy the VMware Tools installer to /tmp/.

it Seems kali have a Problem with VMware ! i install success open-vm-tools but i cant move mouse from vmware in my host Without ALT+CTRL . i cant copy and paste from Host to my VM and etc problems for VMware Tools ...

Just trying to install VMware Tools and following the guide step by step. I echo the lines into the update-rc.d file and then do an apt-get for my linux headers. However they can't be found and I get the following error:

Im trying to install vmware tools on Workstation 11. I have run updates and installed linux-headers.
However, the kernel version is 4.0.0-kali1-amd64 and the only headers i can find are linux-headers-4.2.0-kali1-all...

Is there an update for the kernel, or how can I get the 4.0.0 headers? I tried "apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)"
and there are no files found...

I did find an older package (linux-headers-4.0.0-kali1-all-amd64_4.0.4-1+kali2_amd64.deb) But can't figure out how to install it.

i used a "kali-linux-mate-2016.2-amd64.iso" image to create a vmware guest. its been running fine for quite awhile. i'm wanting to get open-vm-tools to run on it. i used the commands from this article, "https://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-vmware-tools-kali-guest" ...